Lamentations 3:48 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. ”

• Lamentations 3:48 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The deep sympathy of the prophet, which pours itself forth in abundant tears over the distress of his people. Lamentations 3:51 Or, “Mine eye” causeth pain to my soul, i. e. maketh my soul ac...

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• Lamentations 3:48 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Lamentations 3. The Third Lament. Here it is the singer that comes chiefly to the front; whereas in Lamentations 3:1 it had been Zion, and in Lamentations 3:2 it was Yahweh. EV hardly puts Lam...

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• Lamentations 3:48 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Mine eye runneth down. Compare Luke 19:41 . App-85. eye . tears: "eye" being put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), for the tears which flow from it.

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• Lamentations 3:48 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Interpreters give different explanations of the beginning of this verse: some render it thus, “My eye comes down unto rivers of waters;” others, “My eye flows down unto rivers of waters,” or, “...

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• Lamentations 3:48 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. Mine eye runneth down - I weep incessantly.

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• Lamentations 3:48 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Runneth down with— Bathes in. Schultens.

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• Lamentations 3:48 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. Pe is put before Ain, as in Elegy 2:16,17; 4:16,17. Verse 46. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us - ( Lamentations 2:16...

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• Lamentations 3:48 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Zion's Hope in God's Mercy This third poem is the most elaborate in structure and the most sublime in thought of all. The poet speaks not only for himself, but for the nation. The order of thought...

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• Lamentations 3:48 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Mine eye... — A stronger utterance of the thought of Lamentations 1:16 ; Lamentations 2:18 ; Psalms 119:136 .

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• Lamentations 3:48 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  GRIEVING BEFORE GOD Lamentations 3:43-54 AS might have been expected, the mourning patriot quickly forsakes the patch of sunshine which lights up a few verses of this elegy. But the vision of i...

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• Lamentations 3:48 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In this central and longest poem, Jeremiah identified himself completely with the experiences of his people. In the first movement, in language which throbs with pain, he described his own sorrows, r...

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• Lamentations 3:48 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him....

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• Lamentations 3:48 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Mine eye runneth down with rivers of waters ,.... Denoting the greatness of his grief and trouble at the afflictions of his people, and the vast profusion of tears on that account. Here the prophet...

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• Lamentations 3:48 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. Ver. 48. Mine eye runneth down. ] Heb., Mine eye descendeth; i.e., falleth, as it were, wholly away....

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• Lamentations 3:48 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water In this and the three following verses the prophet shows that the misfortunes of his country constituted no small part of his personal affliction. Mine e...

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• Lamentations 3:48 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Complaining to God. B. C. 588.       42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast no...

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• Lamentations 3:48 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Lamentations 3:48 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The People Are Called On To Seek YHWH, And They Face Up To The Situation That They Are In Whilst The Prophet Himself Continues To Plead For Them ( Lamentations 3:40-51 ). The prophet now calls on...

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• Lamentations 3:48 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (פ) Lamentations 3:46-48 present significant intimations of their base condition. Enemies making sport of them fear and pitfalls surrounding them, and the oft-recurring f...

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• Lamentations 3:48 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  We are about to read a chapter which is very full of sorrow; while you are listening to it, some of you may be saying, «We are not in that condition.» Well then, be thankful that you are not, and whi...

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• Lamentations 3:48 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The Metre changes here. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet, twenty two in number, begin three hemistichs, which make sixty six verses. It would look better, and read more poetically, if the hemistich...

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• Lamentations 3:48 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Lamentations 3:1-25 MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH THAT OF THE NATION ; OR PERHAPS BY THE NATION...

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• Lamentations 3:48 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Confession of Sin and Complaint over the Cruelty of the Enemies

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• Lamentations 3:48 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 24:17 ; Isaiah 24:18 ; Isaiah 51:19 ; Jeremiah 48:43 ; Jeremiah 48:44 ; Lamentations 1:13 ; Lamentations 1:4 ; Lamentations 2:1-9 ; Luke 21:35

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